Whether you're just starting in swimming or looking for the next level of competition, there is a place for you with NCA. North Coast Aquatics is the largest competitive swim team in San Diego County. Over the past 37 years NCA has helped place over 240 of its swimmers into major colleges across the country, and has been the highest achieving swim club in San Diego County for the last 2 decades. North Coast Aquatics offers a complete program dedicated to excellence, from the novice to world ranked and Olympic class swimmer. Our swimmers have won international gold medals, including Kurt Grote, Olympic gold medal (1996) Pan-Pacific gold medal (1997) and World Championships gold medal (1998), and Tim Siciliano, Pan American gold medal (1999). NCA swimmers have swum in competitions throughout the world in such places as Australia, Canada, Sweden, France, Japan, China, Italy, Mexico, Serbia, and Brazil. NCA has placed several of its 18-under swimmers on to the USA Swimming National Jr Team and won medals in international competitions around the world. This includes recent NCA alums Eric Hedlin (2010 Jr Pan Pacifics silver medal) and Kendyl Stewart (2012 Jr Pan Pacifics gold medal). In addition, 8 NCA swimmers qualified for the 2008 USA Olympic Trials (including top 8 finalist Tanya Krisman) and 10 NCA swimmers qualified for the 2012 Olympic Trials (including a repeat top 8 finish by Tanya Krisman). Due to the success of NCA swimmers, North Coast Aquatics was awarded Gold Medal Status by USA Swimming from 2008-2012 as one of the top 20 club teams in the United States.
